Air Force change-of-command ceremony set for Fort MacArthur to include firing cannons

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves will assume command of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo with a ceremony marking the occasion set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Fort MacArthur parade ground on Pacific Avenue in San Pedro.

During the ceremony, cannons will be fired between 10 and 11 a.m. that possibly will be heard throughout the community.

Greaves takes over from Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski during the ceremony, which is expected to be attended by more than 500 family members, friends, community leaders and military personnel at the Air Force housing complex at Fort MacArthur.